I’d say to my kids: “I was there when it was written”
I was there, $name. I was there 4 years ago when the strength of men failed.
We’re going to look like such fucking idiots when people read about how we collectively handled it.
We’ll probably still be morons no matter when people are reading about it. At least it’ll provide reassurance that whichever things we screw up next are not unprecedented failures.
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“It’s true, all of it”
“Even the shitposts?”
“Especially the shitposts!”
My man.
Another one for my once in a lifetime crisis collection.
Why only once? The best things always have a sequel.
Then people born after 70s must be in a cinematic universe
Born in ‘71. Would really like a chance to catch my breath, but stuff won’t stop happening
Would really like a chance to catch my breath,
That’d be the covid…
I warned you about stuff bro!!! I told you dog!
I hear they’re going to get a lot more frequent. I expect two Katrina-like events in the next ten years in Florida.
Maybe the tenth will be free.
The past tense in the book is concerning
Every pandemic that ended up as a seasonal disease is still active.
You can try denying they ended in this way, but you will end up with an unusable language because most things are technically not over as they had a continuation in some form.
Almost every sickness you get infected with had its hayday of mass genocide. It will die down and then occasionally reoccur.
Dont worry about it, they are mutating heck of a lot. 2020 pandemic is a lot different than the current situation is with the completely different strains we now have.
The current strains of COVID are more infectious and more dangerous than the 2019 strain was. Up until the end of 2023, the only reason we didn’t hear about it was because the vaccines were effective against them (and the corporations want to pretend that it’s been over for several years now). The latest strain is resistant to vaccinations from before the end of September, and the US just saw the second biggest spike in COVID cases since 2019, with an estimated peak at 2 million daily new infections on the 11th.
Just because big businesses say that the pandemic is over so everybody goes back to work and buying stuff doesn’t mean that the pandemic ended. There are plenty of immune compromised people who never left quarantine because they can’t with COVID still around. The rest of society simply decided that their deaths were less important than going back to drinking in crowded bars.
I mean, the pandemic has been over for over a year.
Covid is just endemic now like the flu. It’s seasonal and is never going to go away.
“For a small number of people, the disease could be fatal.” Is three million people a small number? And as others have pointed out, the pandemic isn’t over. https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covid-19-estimating-global-excess-mortality
The Economist had a much higher estimate in the middle of the pandemic
I wanted Jimmy Kimmel’s segment This Week in Covid History to keep going.
Does it mention how badly trump fucked us with his COVID response?
I’ll be honest, even without Trump most Americans proved they were too stupid or stubborn to follow instructions, so he didn’t really need to do anything to slap the whole US with more infections.
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Unfortunately his strategy was much more cartoonishly evil. By making it so taking the pandemic seriously was a partisan issue, he could make it so people voting in person were disproportionately likely to be his base. Then set up some regulations to prevent states from counting mail in votes until in person voting is done to manufacture a narrative that they’re less legitimate and try to stop the count.
I’m sure Trump didn’t help much with his stupidity.
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What “was” covid
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Reported Dec 31, 2019, eh?
I was terminally online during that time, and some reports of a truly awful pneumonia in China were going around as early as mid-November. It was definitely known to be a major outbreak by early December. A lot of the early reports were taken down; just
CCCPCCP doingCCCPCCP things.Edit: whoops thought it had that extra C in there. Should probably use CPC anyway.
Yeah, I remember seeing TikToks about it way before December. Lots of “there are a LOT of people sick in China right now with pneumonia, and it has actually started to hurt their economy. It’ll eventually make its way over here” types of things. The warning signs were there, for those who cared to look.
I mostly saw it on the finance side of tiktok, since lots of financial analysts were like “uhh this shit could crash the economy if it spreads.”
Just CCP, CCCP was the USSR
you forgor a C
Haha thanks
When is the earliest heath officials reported it though? That paragraph doesn’t disagree with your memory.
Considering there were quarantines in December, I’m pretty sure health officials were in the know. Though official international reporting may not have happened until Dec 31.
Well yeah. If people all over the world knew weeks earlier, obviously the health officials knew. But if they didn’t report it before, that doesn’t disagree with the textbook.
I was living in Oklahoma and I remember some of the local media mentioning this “coronavirus” thing that was spreading in China. I also remember people joking about Corona (the beer) being suddenly less popular.
Then in February, March, and April it getting more and more serious, and this is about the time that people started claiming it wasn’t real, and if it was, it wasn’t that bad, and if it was, then it was from a chinese lab bent on taking down the US…
April-May had me re-adjusting my previous opinions of people around me that I thought were rational.
I remember I first heard about it a few days earlier, just after Christmas
I was working in the hospital at the time from a big-picture perspective and it seemed pneumonia cases were already spiking in the US during December 2019. My sister and my coworker both came down with a nasty “pneumonia” during then as well.
Vape lung was pandemic in the states in 2019, even in non-vapers like my dad as well, and then disappeared post-covid?
…wat
In 2019 there was an outbreak of a respiratory condition called EVALI and commonly referred to as ‘vape lung.’
Reported cases sharply dropped off in 2020, despite an increase in vape sales.
I just think it’s interesting, is all.
Wasn’t that traced back to bad thc carts?
Vitamin E and MCT oil are the most heavily cited causes and you can still get cartridges made with both.
I suspect the dumbfounded reply you received was because one expected the word ‘epidemic’ to be used instead.
‘pandemic’ usually is taken to mean it has spread across several international boundaries. ‘pan,’ meaning ‘all.’
They say history is written by the victors. I wonder who wrote this.
Inb4 ‘Probably Victor’
Author: Victor V. Victor
Who will win?
Some guy named Vinny “Vidi” Vici
A survivor.
Didn’t know a virus could write
idk, according to Plague Inc. rules it lost
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I was 34 when I first got it March 2020. I have no other health issues. I am not overweight. Covid fucked me up. My lungs were messed up for six months. I had long Covid for a year. My lungs are still not the same. I couldn’t smoke weed again if I wanted to (I was not a smoker at the time, but I did when I was younger). Then I got it two more times before vaccines were widely available. I’m a shell of the energy I had before, and I really feel like it did something to my brain
Yeah being disabled sucks. Millions of people live like this.
It’s not until it happens to someone you know that you really think about it.
But people learn to live with it.
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No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn’t somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
Again you learn to live with that.
You should do some reading about being disabled because you views are a little ignorant tbh.
I know you probably don’t mean it to but the idea that it’s better to die than to be chronically ill or disabled is ableist as hell. Society treating us like shit doesn’t mean sick and disabled peoples’ lives don’t have value.
Now you kids know what it was like when 9/11 was in every history textbook by 2002.
It was always in our history books but we never talked about it
Guessing you mean in your post-2001 books, but this comment has me imagining a Black Mirror style thing where there’s this future prediction in everyone’s school books that all the teachers refuse to talk about.
😂 yeah my bad, I was in kindergarten when it happened. That would be amazing though
Did you know it changed everything? Because that’s what we were told regularly until about 2010 or so when pretty much everyone had stopped buying it.
Except it sort of did though. Life was pretty different in the 90’s compared to the mid 2000’s.
Life was pretty different in the 2000s than it is today. That’s just called time.
It also kind of kicked off the war on terror, and we know that had all kinds of ripple effects for the world at large
It didn’t change everything, but it did change some things. We still take our shoes off to get through airport security, for example.
Airport security is by far the most identifiable change for me personally. We never used to take shoes or belts off at airport security, we never walked through backscatter x-ray machines, we could carry liquids onto the plane and you could see your family or friends off at the departure gate even if you didn’t have a boarding pass.
That’s not exactly a huge societal change.
That’s more media than school. But my understanding of it is that it kind of did. Mostly for people who frequent airports and Muslims than anyone else though
A history textbook which goes past the 1960s? This definitely is not a book used in American classrooms
The first time I felt old was when my youngest sister learned about events I remembered in school.
I was in elementary school when 9/11 happened. My brother is 6 years younger, and doesn’t actually remember it. So yeah, I felt old when he was learning about it in high school history classes; And I was only in my mid 20’s at the time.
How long until Republicans get that book banned for spreading false information? Lol
Those who control the present controls the past
gonna be generous and say give it about halfway through 2024
Are they going to leave out the part where the president called it a hoax while simultaneously spitballing ideas about UV light, bleach and horse dewormer cures all while thousands of Americans were dying every day. Or the part where he emptied the treasury with zero oversight?
It’s World History not American History. Different subjects.
For a summary skip to Harambe.
